Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Air Force said Monday that it had fined the former commander of the Dover Air Force Base mortuary $7,000 and suspended his top deputy for 20 days without pay for retaliating against whistleblowers, but it allowed both men to keep their jobs.

The punishment came in response to an independent federal investigation that concluded the mortuaryâ€™s leadership had wrongfully tried to fire two subordinates after they reported missing body parts, lax management and other problems at the base that handles Americaâ€™s war dead. [â€¦]